In past shows we’ve talked about the importance of intuition and using our instinct to detect lies. In our last interview with Dr. Judy Wood, she explicitly recited to know that you know what you know and know everything else that you don’t know. Past guest, professor Eric Larson wrote extensively on exposing the subtle toxic lies that infect the progressive media and its damage to culture and the arts. Today’s guest has also written in depth about the importance of telling the truth and how all stress is caused by lying. He says, we all lie casually and habitually and we do it unconsciously. The most pernicious is withholding information. Psychotherapist, author, seminar leader, and twice Independent candidate for US House of Representatives, Brad Blantan joins us to talk about his first book, Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth. The book was a nation-wide bestseller in 1996 and explains very directly how to notice and stop various forms of self-deception and lying to others.

Dr. Brad Blantan:

  • In the course of growing up that who we are is what other people think of us.
  • We work to build an image that we imagine is in the mind of other people.
  • That’s the way you make it in this society.
  • You’re taught you are the grades you make, you’re what the teacher thinks of 
you.
  • What our peers think of us when we’re teenagers.
  • We’re what we promote as ourselves and how successful we appear to be.
  • That present tense noticing person that all of us are right now, is and can be considered to be our fundamental identity.
  • That that identity is primary up front first that is who I am first and foremost.
  • The being, who is now noticing, now talking. The whole culture lives inside the individual mind. We live in a culture and the culture lives in us.
  • As long as you’re living only inside your culture in your mind, you’re basically as detached from reality as any other psychotic human being.
  • I do not think the United States of America is the greatest country in the world, not even close.
  • I think what goes on in the United States is a pack of lies.
  • We all maintain a kind of mental illness and a kind of physical illness as well.
  • What makes radical honesty so radical is merely that its unusual given that 
you’re not expected to be honest.
  • I do an 8 day long workshop called a course in honesty.
  • I have for about 20 years
  • I will be doing an online course soon, called the The Course of Completion.
  • Radical honesty delivers you from the jail of your own mind.
  • When you’re honest it doesn’t take very long to get over it. When you lie about it, 
it takes forever to get over it.
  • You’re engaging with a conspiracy of avoidance with friends.
  • Radical honesty for everyone you know personally and in your personal 
relationships,
  • Love doesn’t happen without giving up pretense.
  • I feel the end of humanity is at the end of this century without a dire correction in 
the very very short term.
  • There are about 34 secret agencies that our taxes pay for.
  • Authenticity is much better then pretense. That’s where love happens, that’s 
where people actually get real support for each other and really help each other.
  • It’s when people are actually telling the truth about what they think about what they’ve done.

Guest-Dr. Brad Blantan, is a psychotherapist, author and seminar leader. He describes himself as “white trash with a Ph.D.” Armed with quick wit and an engaging Southern accent, he speaks with an unwavering honesty that is both disarming and challenging, a quality that has earned him admirers as well as detractors. His first book, Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth, became a nation wide best seller in 1996 and has been translated into seven languages.